Cameroon’s Special Council Support Fund for Mutual Assistance (Feicom) devoted two training sessions in August to stronger financial controls and fraud prevention, an issue of particular importance for an institution that manages and redistributes billions of CFA francs to local governments.
From August 25 to 28, 2026, Feicom brought staff together in Yaoundé for training on fraud, corruption, money laundering and terrorist financing. The session came less than three weeks after another program focused on financial management, asset traceability and internal controls.
Feicom centralizes and redistributes part of the revenue allocated to Cameroon’s decentralized local authorities. According to figures published by its management, the agency mobilized CFA235.75 billion in 2025 and redistributed CFA177.7 billion to municipalities. It also reported 214 financing packages for 154 municipalities and regions.
Its 2026 budget stands at CFA367.2 billion, up 18.8%. These figures do not come from publicly available audited financial statements, but they provide an indication of the volume of financial flows subject to the institution’s internal controls.
Two sessions focus on financial management and risk
Feicom had already trained its materials accountants and imprest administrators from August 10 to 12 at the Jean XXIII Center in Mvolyé, Yaoundé. According to a report the institution published on August 13, the program covered asset traceability, management of imprest and revenue accounts, compliance of supporting documents and internal controls.
The August 25-28 session broadened the focus to fraud and corruption risks, as well as obligations related to money laundering and terrorist financing. These areas fall under different legal frameworks and detection mechanisms, but all require effective transaction tracking and oversight of financial flows.
The two sessions show that Feicom dedicated part of its August training program to safeguards for its financial and asset-management procedures. The training alone, however, does not establish whether those safeguards have become more effective in practice.
No indicators published on the impact of the training
Publicly available information does not specify whether Feicom changed any procedures after the sessions, introduced new controls, how many employees received training or when it plans to assess how the lessons are applied.
Nor does it provide figures on irregularities detected within Feicom, possible disciplinary action or the results of internal controls.
The sessions establish that employees received training on these risks, but they do not demonstrate a decline in fraud or stronger compliance. Such an assessment would require indicators tracked over time, such as irregularities in supporting documents, correction times, declared conflicts of interest, reports received, controls conducted and corrective measures implemented.
Prevention will need to show up in procedures
The initiative comes during the final year of the 2022-2026 National Anti-Corruption Strategy published by Cameroon’s National Anti-Corruption Commission.
At Feicom, the effects of the training could ultimately be assessed through changes to expenditure procedures, asset management and mechanisms used to finance local governments. For now, the institution has not published an assessment that links the August sessions to measurable improvements in the prevention or detection of financial irregularities.
Patricia Ngo Ngouem